Red. Yellow. Blue by Alexander Rodchenko

Red. Yellow. Blue by Alexander Rodchenko

A bright avant-gardist created, without exaggeration, historical works – 3 evenly painted canvases – Pure red, Pure yellow and Pure blue. This gave criticism to N. Tarabukin a reason to make a report entitled “The Last Picture Is Painted.” This triptych embodies the refusal not only of the subject of the image, but also of all “spiritual content.”

Rodchenko expressed an atheistic approach to the fact of the death of art: if at Malevich it turns into non-existence, then at Rodchenko it ceases irreversibly. The artist maximally clears the surface of the picture and concentrates the viewer’s attention on the main points of its organization – line, texture, form, that is, on the primary basis of the pictorial language.

The “basics” of painting as such are demonstrated with all the necessary conditions, while at the same time going beyond the limits of the picturesque borders.

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